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More heavy rain still for our Sunday

By Sean Kennedy,

10 hours ago

After a lot of constant rain over this past week and for the start of the weekend, we are still not out of the woods yet.

More heavy rain is expected through the rest of our Saturday night and more heavy rain moving in through Sunday morning with at least another inch of rain possible.

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